VOLTED

was about to drop the positive review but the way the game is setup makes little to no sense. it's tagged as having online multiplayer but u get 2 options that launch you immediately into a fresh game so it feels very singleplayer, yes its possible someone might join you in the few minutes you are stomping the computer team but I don't know. outside of that there seems to be 0 way to organize players, such as playing with friends or gathering any sort of community. if you want to play the game for singleplayer only and absolutely crushing the still somewhat competent computer ai in a ut2k4 onslaught style game mode or another one that seemed to be purely offense vs defense, all while leveling up and equipping new parts customizing your tank thing then by all means I recommend it for that. you wont have any control of what levels you play and there is no escalating challenge or pursuit beyond unlocking all the stuff for your tank which is pretty boring with how the game is setup. unfortunate because the game is under 100mb, features cool unique enemies and the computer mob ai isn't a slouch its just tuned to where if you did almost nothing you would probably win. the AI will respond to you pushing a point that has little defense associated with it meanwhile other units kind of meander and defend the point or act close enough to human players. at the same time I spawned on one of my allied tanks and they were cheesing the environment by hiding under the map shooting the enemy base, again, very player-like. the spawn system is cool, spawn on teammates and get a realtime view of your spawn location. the UI while impressive is annoying as there is no mouse support for navigation but it screams PS1 era 3d models for every menu selection kinda vibe. very mixed but if they actually went the full mile with this and made it so multiplayer was somewhat realized it would be cool. otherwise its boring and kind of pointless. better off just playing unreal tournament 2004 with some vehicle mods

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